But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...

The historical gold stater will be put under the hammer by Stanley Baldwin Auctioneers at their Ancient, British and World Coins Auction next month. And it has now come to be recognised as the ...

Inscriptions on Iron Age coins are the first evidence of writing in Britain.This gold stater coin was one of 5294 British Iron Age and Roman coins excavated at a Late Iron Age shrine near Hallaton ...

This extremely rare gold stater of Athens, depicting Athena ... was stripped of its gold which was then struck into coins. This was the only known example when King George III gave it to William ...

The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British Celtic King Cunobelin were discovered in Bunnik, near Utrecht, by amateur archaeologists. The “stater” coins were found at less than ...

Known as a stater or Croeseid, the coin represents a key turning point in the history of financial systems: the invention of the gold standard. Croesus ruled over the kingdom of Lydia, the western ...

The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British Celtic King Cunobelin were discovered in Bunnik, near Utrecht, by amateur archaeologists. The “stater” coins were found at less than 30cm ...